Territorial Cohesion

Acknowledgement

Contents

1 Preface – Introduction

2 Status and Perspectives of Territorial Cohesion with Respect to European Spatial Development Policy ( ESDP) - Normative and Governance Aspects

2.1 Main Sources of Information

2.2 Terminology applied

2.3 Expanding Territorial Cohesion in the constitutional Debate

2.4 Main Facets of the TC-Issue

2.5 Governance Aspects of Territorial Cohesion

2.6 Achieving Territorial Cohesion through the Results of Scientific Research

2.7 Normative and Governance Perspectives of TC

2.8 Going back to the Roots of TC?

References

3 Territorial Cohesion – Between Expectations, Disparities and Contradictions

Introduction

3.1 The Spatial Development Process and Territorial Cohesion Concept

3.2 Territorial Cohesion, EU Objectives and current Development Goals

References:

4 Regional Disparities – Reasons Enough to Run a Cohesion- Oriented Spatial Policy?

4.1 Spatial Equity – old and new Discussions

4.2 Why have a Spatial Policy oriented toward Equity?

4.3 Regional Disparities with Regard to Employment

4.4 Regional Disparities with Regard to Services for the Public

4.5 Conclusions concerning Spatial Policy

5 Territorial Cohesion, Brain Drain and Digital Divide

5.1 Brain Drain in Eastern Germany – Increasing Governance Paradoxes related to the Outcomes of Post- socialist Peripheralization

5.2 Territorial Cohesion: An outdated Notion?

5.3 Knowledge and the Periphery

5.4 Conclusion

References

6 Environmental Protection needs good Administration: Ecological Applications of the New Legal Instrument “ European Groupings of Territorial Co- operation ( EGTC)”

6.1 Legal Framework

6.2 Experience and Deficits concerning Cross-Border Co- operation

6.3 Requirements and Tasks for an EGTC

6.4 Conclusions

References

7 Suburbanisation, Suburbia and “ Zwischenstadt”: Perspectives of Research and Policy

7.1 Suburbanisation and Suburbia in Germany

7.2 International Perspectives: Suburbia and Beyond

7.3 Main Concepts of Suburbanisation Research

7.4 Suburbia in the Planner’s Discourse: Polarized Interpretations and Blind Spots in the Discourse

7.5 Perspectives on the Future of Suburbanisation Processes

References

8 Varying Costs of Living as Compensation for Regional Disparities in Germany

8.1 Methodological Problems

8.2 A new Glance at existing Data

8.3 Some new Results

8.4 Conclusions

References

Introduction

9 Territorial Cohesion and Transboundary Governance: Insights from the Polish- German and the Czech- German Borders

9.1 Transboundary Governance Concerning Policies with a Spatial Impact

9.2 Empirical Lenses on the Polish-German and Czech-German Borders

9.3 Conclusions

References

10 Spatial Development Strategies in the Enlarged EU: ESPON Project 1.2.3 on Spatially Relevant Aspects of the Information Society

10.1 Territorial Characteristics of the Information Society in Europe

10.2 Information Society Status and Trends in Germany

10.3 Information Society in a German peripheral Region – the Case of Tuttlingen

10.4 Conclusions

References

11 IRS Participates in EU-funded Research Project “ Governance for Sustainability”

List of Authors

Prof. Dr. Joachim Burdack

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bürkner

Mag. iur. Sylwia Czarnecka-Zawada

Prof. Dr. Carl-Heinz David

Prof. Maroš Finka, Ph.D., M.Arch.

Dr. Hans-Peter Gatzweiler

PD Dr. Markus Hesse

Dr. Gerold Janssen

Dr. Rupert Kawka

Dipl.-Ing. Robert Knippschild

Dipl.-Ing. Beate Konieczny

Dr. Markus Leibenath

Prof. Dr. Ulf Matthiesen

Dipl.-Geogr. Kristine Müller

Mag. phil. Eva Reisinger

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Scholich

Dipl.-Ing. Lars Stratmann

Prof. Dr. Wendelin Strubelt

Dr. Sabine Zillmer

Portrait of the Editors Instituitions

Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL)

Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL)

Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development ( IOER)

Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning ( IRS)

Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR)